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NEW YORK (AP) — Paula Deen lost another part of her empire on Monday: Smithfield Foods said it was dropping her as a spokeswoman.

The announcement came days after the Food Network said it would not renew the celebrity cook's contract in the wake of revelations that she used racial slurs in the past.

Smithfield sold Paula Deen-branded hams in addition to using her as a spokeswoman. In a statement, the company said it "condemns the use of offensive and discriminatory language and behavior of any kind. Therefore, we are terminating our partnership with Paula Deen."

QVC also said it was reviewing its deal with Paula Deen Enterprises to sell the star's cookbooks and cookware.

Earlier today:

NEW YORK — Paula Deen will appear on NBC's "Today" show on Wednesday, according to host Matt Lauer.

Lauer's announcement came Monday, three days after the celebrity cook abruptly canceled on the morning show, where she was scheduled to answer questions about her past use of racial slurs.

Lauer said Deen "told us she will be here this time."

While questioned last month in a discrimination lawsuit, the 66-year-old Food Network star admitted to using the N-word in the past, but she insisted she and her family do not tolerate prejudice.

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Lee Hams from Alma GA. are better Hams any day. I will by pass Smithfield and drive an extra mile for a Lee Ham. Once you try it you will never settle for anything less.
Let Smithfield have the Chinese and we will keep the Georgia grown.

You almost said "coolies." Be careful, you could lose everything in the swirl of identity politics. All it takes is one time. Masters of Identity Politics do a universe vortex warp sort of like parole, but in reverse on the time continuum. They find, they get paid. Hey, it's an industry and uses industrial methods. Just ask any American college student.... And don't forget to "check the box" so you can be sorted.

I am fully informed of a secondary definition of "cool" to mean being in agreement, similar to the French use of "d'accord." I am sure you know of the word since Honda motor company used it for branding. I was pointing out how close you were to the offending precipice of identity politics. It had absolutely nothing to with understanding the vocabulary of your slang. Now if you will excuse me, I am going to go get me a drank (of water).

Remarkable this made it into film. Pardon if I break up the local rhythm, the script of victimology. People here rend their clothing over this stuff, crying to the moon over their persecution (in their mind from decades before they were born).

I was not calling you racist, silly. I was just making a pun on "cool / coolie" in proximity to "Chinese." Shows how ridiculously people are tuned up and brainwashed by this stuff, walking on needles like a psychosis, egged on by your national media and sorting schemes. For a "free country" a "democracy" it is completely strange how much attention there is to sorting and labeling people here. I guess one can indulge in such recreation since you have other parts of the world doing your manufacturing for you now. It is like the Americans can just argue now and someone will bring them their machinery, food, and blankets. I guess you still have to get your own fuel that you use at fantastically inefficient quantities. Something like 1/2 of the US fuel consumption is done by the US military. This empire stuff is pretty nuts and made the more so by plying the public with identity politics to keep them off the scent of how decisions are made to colonize them. I wonder what happened to Arundhati Roy? She knows the game.

The Department of Defense uses 4,600,000,000 US gallons (1.7×1010 L) of fuel annually, an average of 12,600,000 US gallons (48,000,000 L) of fuel per day. A large Army division may use about 6,000 US gallons (23,000 L) per day. According to the 2005 CIA World Factbook, if it were a country, the DoD would rank 34th in the world in average daily oil use, coming in just behind Iraq and just ahead of Sweden.

Smithfield is in the business of torturing animals. That will only become more horrifying under Chinese ownership. I always wished Paula would tell Smithfield to go to hell. Sorry it worked out the other way.

must have a very SHORT memory. It was Paula who defended THEM not many years ago when they were under seige by Union activists, as I recall. In any event, Paula stood up for them and now they're kicking her to the curb. All one can say is, "Screw Smithfield, we can find better ham right here from South Georgia!".